Gambling-crazy Singaporeans are capitalizing on the demise of Lee Kuan Yew by picking four-digit lottery numbers based on his time of death, or other combinations associated with the former prime minister.

Most numbers linked to Lee's death -- including his date of birth and the digits on the licence plate of the hearse that carried his remains to the Istana state complex for a wake -- have been sold out, a regular punter told Agence France Presse. 

A French court ordered the closure and demolition of a chip stand on Tuesday as demanded by former L'Oreal boss Lindsay Owen-Jones, who complained its frying odors were stinking up his luxury ski apartment.

A court in the winter resort of Albertville ruled in favor of Owen-Jones and four of his neighbors, who argued the shop's fried potatoes and its far-wandering cooking smells represented an "abnormal disturbance to the neighborhood," the lawyer for stand manager Valerie Maertens said.

Park rangers in the U.S. capital are gearing up for a wild goose chase. Literally.

The National Park Service said Tuesday it's making plans to relocate a large and growing population of Canada geese from the National Mall, the nation's symbolic "front yard."

It will be music to the ears of many -- buskers who know only three tunes will be politely urged to move on after finishing their repertoire under a new code of conduct published in London on Monday.

Bagpipe players will also be discouraged, as they create sounds that "can become annoying more quickly", along with anyone playing highly amplified guitars or drums, or beatboxing.

Police in eastern Indian were left red-faced when a raid on a sex district discovered four of their own along with a convicted murderer whom they were supposed to be guarding, a report said Sunday.

The four constables had been tasked with transporting the murderer from a jail in the underdeveloped state of Jharkhand to hospital for a check-up, the Hindustan Times reported.

Police have detained more than 1,000 people in eastern India over a cheating scandal that saw relatives scale the walls of a school exam centre to help students, a senior officer said Sunday.

Images last week showed dozens of people clinging to the windows of a four-storey building to pass cheat sheets in the state of Bihar, where more than 1.4 million teenagers are sitting their school-leaving exams.

Teachers from an apple-growing region in New York have delivered 1,000 of them to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (KWOH'-moh) to protest education funding levels.

The teachers from the Finger Lakes say each of the shiny red apples represents a local teaching position unfilled because of years of underfunding for public education. They laid the baskets of apples in front of Cuomo's office Friday as a guard looked on.

For hamburger aficionados who want the smell even when they can't get a bite, Burger King is putting the scent into a limited-edition fragrance.

Burger King said Friday that the Whopper grilled beef burger-scented cologne will be sold only on April 1, and only in Japan.

Two lion cubs have become star members of a family living in a Gaza refugee camp as a result of the weak economy in the war-battered Palestinian territory.

A cash-starved zoo in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, sold the cubs to Saadi Jamal, a Palestinian Authority security employee who has taken them home -- to the delight of his four children and their neighbours.

Authorities in eastern India were left red-faced on Thursday after images of relatives scaling the walls of a school exam centre to pass notes to candidates were broadcast on local television.

Dozens of people were shown clinging to the windows of one four-storey building in the eastern state of Bihar, where more than 1.4 million teenagers are sitting their school leaving exams.